Drive-by Blogging
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2010-02-09
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Music: Avian Lung (2009) by The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
Animation: The Stonecutter (1960) by Gerald McDermott
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Intel, Micron announce 25nm NAND flash production
It’s hard to overstate the performance gains that SSDs offer. It’s not the sort of incremental, you’ll-notice-it-5%-of-the-time gains that new CPUs usually offer.
If your computer feels slow, it’s almost definitely the hard drive’s fault.
If you’re waiting a little longer than usual for a popular website to render its Dashboard or show you an encyclopedia page or tell you which of your old high-school friends have gotten fat, you’re probably waiting for some hard drives in a server somewhere…
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Broken Note – Let ‘em Hang
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2010-02-08
not everything is an attack on the LGBT community, calm down.
— Excerpt from nik’s response to LGBTgate.
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Haml Sucks for Content
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This arrived today.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Guilty Pleasures I: Émilie Simon – Rose Hybride de Thé
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“He's, uh, quite a character.”
By southtwelfth:
One of my favorite types of social interactions — and perhaps one of the trickiest to navigate — is when you meet someone for the first time, discover that you have a mutual acquaintance whom you personally dislike very much, and then try to figure out, without tipping your hand, if the person you’ve just met also dislikes this mutual acquaintance as much as you do. It’s a difficult little dance. I am sure the Germans have a word for it. We don’t in English, unfortunately…
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Tell me a story about where you were born. What was the moon like? What was the sunset like? Did you get presents? It’s not an exact science but I can pinpoint your horoscope. It says here that you like horoscopes, is that correct? You have to tell me the truth.
— Crudbump
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2010-02-07
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Sir Patrick Stewart on technology (via Infocult).
Disagree about Twitter; totally agree about telephones.
